This fantastic 250RR road racer is the sister machine of the only Harley-Davidson ever to win a Grand Prix World Championship with a double-win in 1976, capturing both the 250 and 350cc classes. This is a very special and rare Harley-Davidson racer, the product of Harley-Davidson’s unusual move into selling lightweight, two-stroke motorcycles after taking a 50 percent stake in Aermacchi in 1960. Harley-Davidson had great heavyweight V-twins, but its Hummer model—a copy of the 1938 DKW RT125—was out of date; rather than invest in research and development in a subject it knew little about, a cheaper option was to invest in a struggling company who had the expertise it needed. The investment in Aermacchi yielded a new production facility to build both airplanes and Aermacchi-Harley-Davidson pushrod flat singles, and by 1970, two-stroke racers as well. Renzo Pasolini took a 250RR to second place in the Grand Prix World Championship in 1972, and using an enlarged version of the motor in the 350RR, took third in the Championships that same year, which was quite a debut. The engine gained water cooling in 1973, and things looked promising, but the factory team was dealt a devastating blow at Monza that year, when Pasolini—along with Jarno Saarinen—was killed after slipping on a competitor’s oil streak. Team member Michel Rougerie finished fifth in the 250 Grand Prix standings regardless. Harley-Davidson took over 100 percent control of Aermacchi in 1974, which enabled a tremendous breakthrough to the engine of the road racers by Dr. Sandro Colombo. The addition of Walter Villa in 1974 to the Harley-Davidson team turned the tide, and combined with Colombo’s improved engine, brought Harley-Davidson the 1974, 1975 and 1976 250cc Grand Prix World Championships, plus the 350cc Championship in 1976. These remain Harley-Davidson’s only World Championships, a real tribute to the talents of Colombo and Villa working in a small factory near Milan that battled the mighty Japanese two-strokes coming up in Grand Prix racing and beat them. This fantastic 1976 Harley-Davidson 250RR road racer is from the Bob Weaver Collection and is a matching-numbers racer restored to near perfection. There is no finer 250RR from the year a Harley-Davidson won both the 250 and 350cc Grand Prix World Championships.

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